Petr Novák - Pots under influence of tea

I am happy for opportunity to join community of potters and tea lovers here. For introduce myself I will use the words from my webpage :

"My relationship to the tea culture begun long before my first clay work had seen the light of day. So I naturally came to ceramics with a focus on the ceramics used in the tea ceremony. Good pottery is as essential to the tea as much as the pure water and good company. On my journey I am searching for the links between the natural look of the wabi style and traditional European techniques. I use fire, the Phoenix, who gives my vessels character and life."

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As I drink tea and as I fire tea wares I have still more things to handle and to learn than I have managed and I have learned. So I hope that be the part of this community will help me to learn more and I also hope that sharing my experiences will help community.

We are working on new design of our website but you can still see some of my work here:http://artkeramika.cz/keramikstudio/?lang=en&page=wood

direct contact to me is keramikakcaji@gmail.com

Please turn a blind eye on my English but ask on what ever you are interested in.

Petr

Last edited by Petr Novák on Feb 20th, '10, 03:32, edited 2 times in total.

Welcome to our TeawareArtisans, Petr! I am sure we are all very anxious to see more of your works. You can also post photos through a photo host account such as photobucket. Please let me know if I can assist you in any way.

I have tried to created first photobucket album and you were right -it is quite easy. So here we are: http://s775.photobucket.com/albums/yy35/Petr_Novak/ . I will edit it and put more there...Does it works like that?

If you will have interest in some particular piece -I mean techniques, history or inspiration- please do not be afraid to ask.

Oh, one other alternative, your site photos are jpg photos, url ending in "jpg." You can post them this way also, but the photos are a too big for many browsers including IE. They should be be 640 pixels or less (although I have the forum set for larger while some glitches are being worked out). So, on my screen, the right side is cut off.

Ultimately the forum will again be set for 640 pixels wide, but smaller is even better.

The big downside to this, the url ever changes, which it sounds like it will, the photo will no longer show on the forum.

So, copy the jpg url from the browser, paste it in your post, highlight it, left click the img icon above your new post window. It will look like this minus the ***